None of the soups in the blender's included recipe book use any type of canned tomato. Several include one raw tomato as an ingredient.
I'm not sure I could taste the difference between a soup made with a fresh tomato or canned. Canned tomato is much less expensive. So my first lunch mission as the weather cools off is to create a tomato-based soup with canned tomato. I'll use diced tomato, since that is what we buy at Costco and keep in the garage.
Costco also has affordable fresh broccoli. Since I like most tomato-broccoli soups, and already have a use for spinach (in my spinach-mango or spinach-raspberry smoothies) the refined mission is to use canned tomato and fresh broccoli.
After one dreadful attempt, here is a nice second version.
Ingredients:
- 1 can diced tomato
- 1 cup nearly boiling water
- 1 clove garlic
- about 3 cups fresh broccoli, steamed in the microwave
- a little raw onion
Directions:
Put everything in the blender and blend on "soup". Garnish with grated cheese and perhaps black pepper.
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